Coin wrapping machines



I April 21, 1959 E. REIS com WRAPPING MACHINES 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Feb. 2, 1956 P 21, 1959 E. REIS ,882,664

COIN WRAPPING MACHINES Filed Feb. 2, 1956 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 April 21, 1959 E.-REIS com WRAPPING MACHINES 5 Sheets- Sheet' 3 Filed Feb. 2, 1956 A ril 21, 1959 as com WRAPPING MACHINES 5 Shets-Sheet 4 Filed Feb. 2, 1956 April 21, 1959 RES 2,882,664

COIN WRAPPING MACHINES Filed Feb. 2, 1956 v 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 COIN WRAPPING MACHINES Eugen Reis, Bruchsal, Baden, Germany Application February 2, 1956, Serial No. 563,151 Claims. (Cl. 53-212) This invention relates to a coin wrapping machine. One of the known coin wrapping machines consists of an appliance forming a constructional unit with the coin counting machine, which is driven by way of a common drive' and'correspondingly extensive gearing, which are interdependent. This known appliance suffers from the disadvantage, that only coins of the same or similar size can be counted and Wrapped. When the kinds of coins to be counted differ considerably from one another in diameter, as is mostly the case, several of these counting and wrapping machines becomes necessary for enabling all kinds of coins to be counted and wrapped, which entails heavy initial costs. The coupling of the two appliances to form a single unit presents the further disadvantage, that in case of trouble both appliances are put out of service. It will be obvious, that through this coupling of the two appliances the machine is bound to be relatively complicated and consequently very susceptible to trouble.

In contradistinction thereto, the invention puts forward the proposal, that the coin wrapping machine consists of an appliance which is provided with its own drive, is capable of wrapping coins of a great variety of di: ameters and of being easily attached to and detached from a coin counting machine which also forms a geared and operatively self-contained unit provided with its own driving means. There are thus two appliances, separated from one another as regards their gearing and operation and working independently of one another, which can be combined to form a single appliance and can be separated from one another just as easily, each appliance remaining independently operable after the separation.

The advantages arising from this arrangement are manifold, since they only have to be adapted to the requirements of each individual appliance. On the other hand there can be no mutual interference between the two sets of gearing, so that, on trouble occurring in one appliance, the other will remain unaffected by it. Finally, the proposal provides the further great advantage, that the two appliances can be united to form a combined counting and wrapping appliance, without any structural alterations in the design of either appliance being necessary. All that is required is to mount an existing coin counting machine on the wrapping machine and a combined coin counting and wrapping machine results.

In addition to this the wrapping appliance can wrap coins of different diameter, without it being necessary to provide complicated arrangements for this purpose. This is effected by combining the machine parts effecting the actual wrapping process to form an installable unit which can easily be changed for other wrapping units adapted to another coin diameter. This makes it possible to wrap coins of various diameters without any of the other mechanism having to be interfered with. All that is required is to change one wrapping mechanism for another. The wrapping appliance is put in motion by way of a control bar by a hand-operated coin-feeding device and es Patent brought to rest automatically after the completion of the coin wrapping process. Thus, the wrapping process is initiated consciously by hand, whereupon the subsequentsequence of operations takes place automatically and, finally, the wrapping appliance is brought to rest automatically.

A constructional example of the invention is illustrated diagrammatically in the accompanying in which:

Fig. 1 shows a ping appliance,

Fig. 2 a plan view of the under side of the wrapping appliance,

Fig. 3 a section on line AB of Fig. 1,

Fig. 4 a section on line E-F of Fig 1, and

Fig. 5 a section on line CD of Fig. 4.

1 is the driving motor which by means of a V-belt 2 and the belt pulleys 3 drives a gear wheel 4 mounted on a shaft 5. On the same shaft 5 is mounted a pinion 6 meshing with a gear wheel '7 which is mounted on a worm shaft 8. The worm shaft 8 coacts with a worm wheel 9 mounted on a shaft 10. On the shaft It is also mounted a cam disc 12, the construction and mode operation of which is more particularly described below. With the gear wheel 4 meshes a gear wheel 15 which is itself in engagement with the gear wheels 16 and 17, on the shafts of which the feed rollers 18 and 19 for the plan view of the upper side of the wrapwrapping paper are mounted. The shafts 5, 8 and 10 are supported in a U-shaped casing 25, whilst the gear wheels 15, 17 and 16 with the rollers 18 and 19 are supported in the bearing plates 26, 26 of an also U-shaped casing. The bearing plates 26, 26" and 30 are fixed on the base plate 26 and form, together with the driving wheels 15, 16, 17 and the rollers 18 19, an attachable unit which can be exchanged for others, in which the distance the bearing plates 26' and 31) the pin 27' is provided with a collar 32 which limits the motion of the lower holding pin 27' and against which and the bearing plate 30 a compression On a plate 35 fixed to the U-shaped casing is supported rotatably in two bearings 36 on a pin 38 a plate 37. To

the pin 38 is attached a tension spring 39 which forces. plate 37 is slidably sup-- for the reception of thev Lateral metal bounding sheets 41 are covered with spongy rubber or the like the plate 37 upwards. On this ported a further plate 37' stacked wrapping papers 4t).

and hold the pile of papers face of thepaper pile the shaft 48 of which 35. The feed roller is rotatable only in the movements are not take part in the wheel arrangement.

matically feeding the machine.

together. The upper sur-' 40 presses against a feed roller 45,

in the opposite direction, it does It serves the purpose of auto separate'wrapping papers into the In the bearing plates 26, 26" there is also supported rotatably a shaft 47. It supports a removablelever .51 provided with an operating knob, to which are pivotally attached the levers 52, 52', the lever 52" being. keyed onto the shaft the knob being pushed to-theright, turning the feed roller45 in the clockwise sense,

paper is pushed into the wrapping device. On the lower end of the shaft (i7 is keyeda control disc .SSpr vided;

with'a lug 54, at which a tension spring 55' engages. On

Patented Apr. 21, 1959.-

drawings,

to be wrapped, of which spring 33 slipped over the pin 27' bears.

is supported rotatably in the platev 45which is keyed on a shaft 48- the clockwise sense, whilst, when rotation in the manner of a free:

48 of the feed'roller 45 and, onx

whereby On Wrapping.

the shaft 47 is also mounted a wrapping cap 60 which is provided at its forward end with a semicircular recess 61 corresponding to the particular coin diameter. In the middle of this semicircular recess 61 there is sup ported in the cap 60 a freely rotatable roller 62. In one extreme position (position of rest) a stop (not shown) limits the motion of the wrapping cap 60, whilst in the other extreme position (operative position) it presses the still unwrapped pile of coins with its roller 62 against the driven rollers 18, 19. On the shaft 47 is also mounted a dog 56 which coacts with a cranked lever 57 which is acted on by a spring 58 and by means of a stop 59 turns during the backward swing of the wrapping cap 60 into the position of rest, a member 93 and by means of the lever 95 draws the holding pin 27' downwards, so that the wrapped roll of coins falls out. 65 is the coin container which is located below the coin funnel of the coin counting machine (not shown). It consists of two semicircular parts 65 and 65". One of the parts, the part 65, is slipped on to the free end of a rocking lever 66 which is keyed on a shaft 67. On the shaft 67 is also fixed the cranked lever 68 which can be rocked by a handle 69. On the free end of the cranked lever 68 a stop 75 is provided, the significance of which will be later described. The cranked lever 68 is also engaged by means of a slot 76 by a lever 77, to which is pivotally attached a lever 78 which is acted on by a tension spring 79. The free end of the lever 78 is keyed on the shaft 85, on which is also supported the lever arm 86, the free end of which supports the part 65" of the coin container 65. The part 65 also supports a stop 87, the significance of which will be described later. A stop 87' limits the rocking motion of the container half 65". In the normal position the two parts 65' and 65" form a completely closed container 65. On moving the hand lever 69 out of the normal position in the counterclockwise sense, the container 65 opens, the part 65' moving to the left outwards, whilst the part 65" with the pile of coins is forced against the rollers 18, 19. On the lever 86 swinging inwards, the stop 87 on the coin container part 65" strikes against a ratchet 90 which is loaded by a spring 91 and turns about the pin 92, whereby the body 93 is swung about the pin 94. To the body 93 is rotatably attached in a horizontal plane a lever 95 which engages the pin 27 and presses the latter downwards, until the pile of coins swung inwards by the part 65" arrives between the holding pins 27, 27'. Shortly before the pile of coins reaches the two rollers 18, 19, the stop 85 releases the ratchet 90, the holding pin 27' springs backward and forces the pile of coins against the upper folding pin 27. On the levers 66 and 86 swinging backwards, the stop 87 slides past the evading ratchet 90. The stop 75 referred to above coacts with a ratchet 101 loaded by a spring 102, which ratchet is adapted to swing freely in one direction of rotation and is in the other rotary direction, in which it is blocked by a stop 103, pivotally attached to the control bar 100. The control bar 100 is guided by means of slots 104 in pins and is acted on by a spring 105 which draws the control bar 100 to the right. On the control bar 100 two stops, 108 and 109, are provided. The stop 108 coacts, as already stated, with the stop 54 and the stop 109 with a cranked lever 115. To the cranked lever 115 is attached a cranked lever 116 by means of any suitable tension mem her 117, the free end of which coacts with a lever 120. This lever 120 actuates an electric contact 121, being pressed by the lever 116 against the pins 122 of the contact 121 and closing the latter. At the end of the control bar 100 there engages a cranked lever 125 to which a bar 126 is pivoted, which leads to the switch of the point coin counting machine (not shown). The cam disc 12 which is connected with the worm wheel 9 has on its outer side two pins 130 which coact with a cranked lever 131 under the influence of a spring 132. On the inner side the cam disc 12 has cam tracks 135 which coact with roller 136. These rollers 136 which extend through slots in the plates 26 and 25 are supported on guiding bodies 137 which are guided on two guiding bars 138 which are supported in the bearing plates 26', 26". The lower guiding body 137 is made in two parts, consisting of the parts 137' and 137", which are connected with one another by a spring 140. Between these guiding bodies 137 there is a compression spring 139. In addition, there are provided on the guiding bodies 137 books 147 for rolling in the wrapping paper. The base plate 26 of the U-shaped casing 26, 26', 26" is provided with two long slots 142', 142". The plate 35 also has similar slots 143", 143'. They act as a passage for the rollers 136. The plate 39 has at its lower end two flaps 144', 144" which are bent over in the form of a U and into which the base plate canbe slid. The arrangement according to the invention operates as follows:

To start with, the coin container 65 is filled with the number of coins counted by the counting machine. Thereupon the handle 69 is turned in the counterclockwise sense, whereby the part 65' is swung in the same rotary sense to the left outwards, while the part 65 is swung in the clockwise sense inwards, namely until the column of coins can be swung in between the holding pins 27, 27'. In order that the pile of coins can be introduced between the holding pin 27, 27' and be engaged by the latter, the following takes place during the rocking of the handle 69.

On the part 65" being swung in the clockwise sense towards the rollers 18, 19, the stop 87 takes on the part 65", the ratchet and the member 93 along with it and turns the latter in the counterclockwise sense, whereby the pin 27 is displaced by way of the lever fixed to the body 93 downwards by such an amount that the column of coins can safely pass between the pins 27, 27' (Figs. 4 and 5). When the stop 87 has slid over the ratchet 90, the latter is forced back by the spring 33 of the pin 27 into its normal position and the pin 27' thereby slides upwards, so that the column of coins is pressed in firmly between the two pins 27, 27. Thereupon the handle 69 is returned into its initial position, that is turned back in the clockwise sense, until the part 65" strikes against a stop 87'. In this position the coin container 65 is ready to receive the next pile of coins. In this motion the stop 75 takes the ratchet 101 of the control bar along with it to the right. At the same time the stop 108 turns the lug 54 on the shaft 47 and turns the latter in the clockwise sense suddenly under the action of the spring 55 (Fig. 5). By this means the shaft 47 and the wrapping cap 60 are also turned in the clockwise sense, until the column of coins is surrounded by the wrapping cap 60 and is pressed by means of the roller 62 in the wrapping cap 60 against the rollers 18, 19. In the meantime the control bar 100 which was dis placed to the right has by means of its stop 109 turned the cranked lever in the clockwise sense, whereby the cranked lever 116, connected with the latter, is turned so as to press against the lever 120. By this means the compression spring loaded pin 122 of the contact 121 is pressed into the latter, whereby the circuit is closed and the motor 1 commences to run. By this means the wrapping paper which has been pushed forward by the feed roller 45 is wrapped round the column of coins. When this has taken place, the rollers 136 fixed on the guiding member 137 are run on to the guiding tracks of the cam disc 12, whereby the guiding blocks 137 and 137 (Fig. 4) with the hooks 147 are moved towards one another and the wrapping paper projecting beyond the column of coins is wrapped in. When this has taken place, the rollers 136 run ed the guiding tracks 135, so that the compression spring 139 can come into action and the guiding blocks 137 with the books 147 are forced apart, whereby the wrapped up pile of coins is freed from the wrapping hooks 147. When the wrapping process has been completed, thecranked lever 131 willv have run on to the stop 130 of the cam disc 12 and releases the spring loaded pin 122 of the contact 121, so that the circuit is broken and the motor 1 cut out. Finally, during the displacement of the control bar 100 to the right the cranked lever 125 pivotally attached to its left hand end has been swung in the clockwise sense by such an amount that a lever 126 is actuated, which leads to the switch of the coin counting machine and puts the latter in operation. The wrapping of the roll of coins is now complete and the roll can be removed from the machine (Fig. 1). For this purpose the handle 50 is turned back in the counterclockwise sense into its initial position. During this movement of the shaft 47 in the counterclockwise sense the stop 56 strikes against the cranked lever 57, which is blocked in this direction, and turns the member 93 downwards, so that the pin 27 releases the column of coins and the latter can fall out of the machine (Fig. 4). At the same time the next paper is pushed into the machine by the feed roller 45.

I claim:

1. A coin wrapping machine for coins of any kind, comprising in combination, a wrapping appliance, a motor with a gear to actuate said appliance, a coin container, adapted to receive a pile of coins, said container consisting of two half-parts, one of which is arranged on a hand lever and the other of which is coupled by lever gear with said hand lever, one half-part being arranged to swing away and the other half-part with the coin pile being arranged to be swung in front of said wrapping appliance, and means coupled with said hand lever for energizing said motor as the half part with the coin pile is moved, by said hand lever, to a position adjacent said wrapping appliance.

2. A coin wrapping machine for coins of any kind, comprising in combination, a wrapping appliance, a motor with a gear to actuate said appliance, a coin container, adapted to receive a pile of coins, said container consisting of two half-parts, one of which is arranged on a hand lever and the other half-part coupled by lever gear with said hand lever, one half-part being arranged to swing away and the other half-part with the coin pile being arranged to be swung in front of said wrapping appliance, means coupled with said hand lever for energizing said motor as the half part with the coin pile is moved, by said hand lever, to a position adjacent said wrapping appliance and a wrapping cap in said wrapping appliance with a freely rotatable roller and a semicircular recess arranged to press the unwrapped pile of coins against the driven rollers of said wrapping appliance.

3. A coin wrapping machine for coins of any kind, comprising in combination, a wrapping appliance, a motor with a gear to actuate said appliance, a coin container, adapted to receive a pile of coins, said container consisting of two half-parts, one of which is arranged on a hand lever and the other of which is coupled by lever gear with said hand lever, one half-part being arranged to swing away and the other half-part with the coin pile being arranged to be swung in front of said wrapping appliance, means coupled with said hand lever for energizing said motor as the half part with the coin pile is moved, by said hand lever, to a position adjacent said wrapping appliance, a wrapping cap in said wrapping appliance with a freely rotatable roller and a semicircular recess adapted to press the unwrapped pile of coins against the driven rollers of said wrapping appliance, a plate for receiving a pile of wrapping papers, a roll pressed against this pile, and means coupled with said wrapping cap to drive said roll for delivering one wrapping paper.

4. A coin wrapping machine for coins of any kind, comprising in combination, a wrapping appliance, a motor with a gear to actuate said appliance, a coin container, adapted to receive a pile of coins, said container consisting of two half-parts, one of which is arranged on a hand lever and the other of which is coupled by lever gear with said hand lever, one half-part being arranged to swing away and the other half-part with the coin pile being arranged to be swung in front of said wrapping appliance, means coupled with said hand lever for energizing said motor as the half part with the coin pile is moved, by said hand lever, to a position adjacent said wrapping appliance, a wrapping cap in said wrapping appliance with a freely rotatable roller and a semicircular recess adapted to press the unwrapped pile of coins against the driven rollers of said wrapping appliance and a hand lever coupled with said Wrapping cap.

5. A coin wrapping machine for coins of any kind comprising in combination, a wrapping appliance, a motor with a gear to actuate said appliance, a coin container, adapted to receive a pile of coins, said container consisting of two half-parts, one of which is arranged on a hand lever and the other of which is coupled by lever gear with said hand lever, one half-part being arranged to swing away and the other half-part with the coin pile being arranged to be swung in front of said wrapping appliance, means coupled with said hand lever for energizing said motor as the half part with the coin pile is moved, by said hand lever, to a position adjacent said wrapping appliance, and U-shaped casing, containing the whole wrapping appliance, and exchangeably connected to the machine frame.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 981,403 Farrell Jan. 10, 1911 998,830 Batdorf July 25, 1911 1,118,472 Casgrain et al. Nov. 24, 1911 1,901,715 Young Mar. 14, 1933 2,709,880 Jorgensen June 7, 1955 

